The Challenge For too long, a large and growing battery of metrics are being applied in the Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) that are based on the practices of more scientifically oriented scholarship or on simply what is possible for our technologies to measure. The collective challenge and responsibility of evaluators, especially within an HSS…

Text and data mining – using algorithms to analyse content in ways that would be impossible for humans – is shaping up to be a vital research tool of the 21st century. But Europe lags behind other parts of the world in adopting these new technologies. The FutureTDM project has just concluded its’ two-year EC-funded research…

The Challenge Open science and its importance are gaining more and more attention. A large part of the conversation however, still focuses on the level of awareness and encouragement. How can we help researchers go from awareness to actual implementation of open science in their own discipline? The Project The FOSTER Plus project builds on…

OpenAIRE2020’s aims to implement the European Commission Open Access policies and increase their impact by extending the infrastructure that will allow the management and monitoring of EC-funded research.